After taking off from Santa Monica Airport, authorities in Pontiac, Ill. intercepted a small airplane containing 340 pounds of marijuana on May 3. The pilot in the incident, Alan Luster, a 46-year-old male from Marietta, […]

Sara Bayles always loved the beach, although she grew up in non-beach areas on the East Coast. She moved to California six years ago, married a man who taught marine biology at SMC, and moved […]

This story has been updated with a more comprehensive report which can be viewed by clicking HERE Residents in Sunset Park awoke to the sound of gunfire early Tuesday morning by an incident that left […]

Residents in Sunset Park awoke to the sound of gunfire in the early morning hours of May 18. The incident resulted in one Santa Monica Police officer shot and a nearly four-hour search for the […]

At its April 27 meeting, the City Council approved the designs of two major capital projects, which stand to drastically improve the City’s bikability. The first project will give Ocean Park Boulevard an environmentally friendly, […]

Don’t expect any of them to admit it, but it turns out they were wrong – all those politicians who whined for many years that high taxes and lousy business conditions were pushing Californians to […]

After extensive debate at its March 23 meeting, the City Council approved an “agreement-in-principle” with the Broad Foundation ­­­toward a potential Modern Art Museum in Santa Monica. The action allows the city to move forward […]

For 17 years, the Los Angeles Women’s Theatre Festival has been presenting performances by talented women from the theatre, dance, and performance art world. This year’s festival, with the theme “Meeting the New Decade,” was […]

The continuing saga concerning the proper use of the land at the nation’s largest Veteran’s Administration campus took another turn on Tuesday, March 15, when the leader of two years of Sunday afternoon protests filed […]